- TX: Paxton’s former lawyer endorses Talarico in US Senate race
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A lawyer who represented Ken Paxton, Texas’s attorney general, for nearly a decade over accusations of corruption and securities fraud is supporting Democrat James Talarico – and not his former client – in one of the biggest US Senate races. Talarico on Monday drew attention to his campaign winning the endorsement of Houston attorney Dan Cogdell, who was part of Paxton’s defense team during the Republican’s historic impeachment trial in 2023 that ended in acquittal. The legal troubles that shadowed Paxton in public office in Texas are a central attack line of Talarico’s campaign, though in his endorsement, Cogdell didn’t cite concerns about his client’s past. Cogdell said he didn’t dislike Paxton as a person and felt that Texas lawmakers were right to eventually acquit the attorney general. But as a politician, Cogdell said, Paxton is too focused on appeasing Donald Trump.” (06/09/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/09/ken-paxton-lawyer-endorses-james-talarico
- Sweden: Regime set to ban mobile phones in schools
Source: Seattle Times
“Long championed as a leader in adopting digital technology, Sweden is set to ban mobile phones in schools beginning in the fall for the next academic year as part of a broad, international reversal on the use of screens in classrooms. Since 2023, the Scandinavian country’s center-right coalition government has pursued a policy prioritizing more reading time and less screen time, particularly among preschool students, by favoring books and other traditional learning tools.” [editor’s note: The story hints, but doesn’t say, that mobile phones will NOT be banned in schools generally … just for students. Teachers and administrators will likely still be allowed to doomscroll to their hearts’ content – TLK] (06/09/26)
- Vance demands Justice Department probe of Minnesota officials as White House presses “war on fraud”
Source: Associated Press
“Vice President JD Vance is pressing federal prosecutors to investigate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison over allegations they failed to stop widespread social services fraud, amplifying concerns the White House will use a new Justice Department division to target political rivals. Vance, who has been tapped to lead the Republican Trump administration’s anti-fraud efforts as he seeks to raise his political profile as a potential 2028 presidential candidate, cited in a letter to the Justice Department a report from the Republican-led House Oversight Committee that alleges Walz and Ellison were aware of pervasive misuse of government programs for years and let it flourish.” (06/09/26)
- Apple withholds new Siri AI from European devices; bureaucrats whine
Source: Politico
“Apple has said it would not ship its overhauled AI assistant on its devices in the EU, pinning the holdout squarely on Europe’s Big Tech market dominance rules. The iPhone maker on Monday announced its redesigned AI-enabled assistant, branded Siri AI, at its developer conference in Cupertino, California. Shortly afterwards, Apple confirmed that EU users will not get Siri AI on iPhones and iPads when its latest update ships this fall, with no timeline for when or whether that changes. … ‘We’re deeply disappointed that our EU users won’t have Siri AI on iPhone or iPad,’ said Craig Federighi, Apple’s software engineering chief, adding that the company hopes to bring it to the bloc eventually and will keep engaging with regulators. It’s the second time that Apple has held AI features back from the EU over the DMA, after withholding the original Apple Intelligence suite at its 2024 launch.” (06/09/26)
- Crew rescued after US military helicopter goes down near Iran
Source: Axios
“A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache went down near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, and officials are investigating whether Iranian fire brought it down, two American officials and a third source with knowledge tell Axios. … Both crew members were rescued around 7:30pm ET, about two hours after the helicopter went down off the coast of Oman, U.S. Central Command said in a post on X. They are in stable condition.” (06/09/26)
- German, French regimes scrap joint fighter jet program
Source: Deutsche Welle [German state media]
“After years of infighting, the Franco-German project to build a joint next-generation fighter jet has collapsed. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed last week that manufacturers Dassault and Airbus failed to resolve key disputes, officials in Berlin and Paris confirmed on Monday. The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program, launched in 2017, aimed to build a next-generation fighter to replace Eurofighters and Rafales by around 2040. The move to scrap one of Europe’s largest defense projects comes as Western military officials warn of a mounting threat from Russia and the United States intensifies pressure on Europe to take care of its own defense.” (06/09/26)
https://www.dw.com/en/franco-german-fighter-jet-project-collapses-after-industry-dispute/a-77466897
- US small business sentiment falls in May as inflation worries mount
Source: Yahoo! Finance
“U.S. small-business sentiment fell in May and the share of owners planning to raise prices over the next three months increased to the highest level in nearly four years, suggesting inflation could remain elevated for a while. The National Federation of Independent Business said on Tuesday its Small Business Optimism Index slipped 0.6 to 95.3 last month, falling further below its 52-year average of 98.0. The survey’s uncertainty index rose three points to 91. It is running well above its historical average of 68.” (06/09/26)
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/us-small-business-sentiment-falls-100437294.html
- Striking teachers bring Mexico City to a standstill ahead of World Cup
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Thousands of demonstrators blocked an avenue leading to Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium on Tuesday, just days before the 2026 World Cup kicks off at the venue. As football fans flood into tournament co-hosts the United States, Canada and Mexico, the Central American country is grappling with chaotic teacher protests in its capital. Tuesday’s protest, led by a breakaway group of the CNTE teachers union, follows a week of demonstrations that President Claudia Sheinbaum has called a ‘provocation.’ … The CNTE teachers union has been on strike since last week to demand a salary raise and the reversal of a pension law — which the government considers unfeasible.” (06/09/26)
- Banned group’s call for strike halts business & transport across Pakistan-administered Kashmir
Source: SFGate
“Shops and businesses shut down, and public transport halted across Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Tuesday after a call for a strike by a recently banned group, known for violent protests. The Joint Awami Action Committee ‘s call follows clashes on Sunday in the city of Rawalakot between the group’s supporters and security personnel that left seven dead. The violence erupted after the Supreme Court of Pakistan-administered Kashmir ruled that 12 legislative seats reserved for Kashmiri refugees living in Pakistan are constitutionally protected and cannot be abolished without a constitutional amendment. The JAAC, formed in 2003, demands greater political rights for the people of Kashmir and the abolition of the refugee seats. Residents of the regional capital, Muzaffarabad, and other towns told The Associated Press markets were largely empty and bus terminals deserted on Tuesday.” (06/09/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/a-banned-group-s-call-for-a-strike-halts-22297237.php
- The law faculty who self-censor the least are not the ones you think
Source: Expression
by Nate Honeycutt“When discussions turn to free expression in higher education, a common assumption is that those with the lowest amount of job security feel the least free to speak. Junior faculty, adjunct instructors, and others without tenure are often presumed to be the most cautious, while senior professors are presumed to enjoy and exercise greater freedom to study, teach, or debate whatever they want without fear of reprisal. And survey data does support this. For example, among faculty in the academy at large non-tenured faculty are more likely to self-censor than tenured/tenure-track faculty. But results from FIRE’s 2026 survey of nearly 2,000 law faculty suggest the reality may be more complicated.” (06/09/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/the-law-faculty-who-self-censor-the
- What JFK Knew about Diplomacy that Modern Leaders Have Forgotten
Source: Independent Institute
by Abigail R Hall“Kennedy facilitated important changes in U.S.-Soviet relations. Less than two months later, the two nations and Great Britain signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited weapons testing in the atmosphere and in the water. The signatories agreed to work toward ending the arms race and, ultimately, complete disarmament. The treaty didn’t succeed — but that doesn’t mean it didn’t matter. Kennedy’s efforts showed how bitter rivals could nevertheless work toward a common goal. Though he wouldn’t live to see them, future diplomatic efforts enabled even the most ideologically opposed regimes to build institutions that constrained humanity’s worst impulses.” (06/09/26)
- Build homes, don’t seize them, Mayor Mamdani
Source: Washington Post
by Ilya Somin“‘Block by Block,’ Zohran Mamdani’s ‘sweeping blueprint’ to reduce housing prices in New York City, comes with a dangerous promise. ‘When necessary,’ the mayor said on May 26, ‘we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers’ and transfer ownership to ‘responsible stewards.’ The problem: The proposal is an unconstitutional power grab that would exacerbate the city’s housing crisis. … The mayor’s proposal doesn’t just violate the federal and state constitutions, which have nearly identical restrictions on takings. It would also make the city’s shortages worse. Faced with the prospect of potential expropriation, many owners would likely withdraw properties from the market or not list them in the first place.” (06/09/26)
- Anarcho-Tyranny is Killing College Sports
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Tho Bishop“College athletics, particularly in the South, has long been one of the great institutions of this country. While the terminally anti-social may be quick to dismiss popular sports as ‘sportsball’ and the latter half of ‘bread and circuses,’ the reality is that popular sports have long served as an important connection in civil society, creating multi-generational stories of success and defeat, and providing valuable lessons about grit, hard work, and determination. Unfortunately, college sports have been under constant assault from political institutions, serving as a striking example of the devastation that can be wrought by anarcho-tyranny — the state-driven phenomenon of criminalizing the enforcement of basic civic norms while increasingly restricting the liberties of law-abiding citizens.” (06/09/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/anarcho-tyranny-killing-college-sports
- George “Poppy” Bush and the JFK Assassination
Source: JFK Facts
by Larry Hancock & Chad Nagle“Researchers of President Kennedy’s assassination have long been familiar with an FBI memorandum dated Nov. 29, 1963, referring to ‘Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency.’ … the CIA faced a barrage of questions concerning Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush’s history with the Agency. The Republican National Convention, at which Bush (nicknamed ‘Poppy’) would receive his party’s nomination for president, was less than a month away. Having once served as a U.S. congressman and ambassador to the United Nations, Bush had also briefly held the directorship of the CIA. Had the GOP nominee concealed not only a longer professional affiliation with the Agency but a link to the murder of a Democratic predecessor 25 years earlier as well? Now, a witness from the night of Nov. 23, 1963, also mentioned in the FBI memorandum, has contacted the Mary Ferrell Foundation (MFF) to try to lend clarity to the mystery with a signed statement.” (06/09/26)
https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/george-poppy-bush-and-the-jfk-assassination
- Rip Van Trumple Contradicts His Own Ballroom Argument
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp“‘This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House,’ US president Donald Trump claimed the day after an armed would-be assassin attempted to charge through a security barricade at the Washington Hilton. ‘“It cannot be built fast enough!’ US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) agreed: ‘America has a problem. That problem is, it is very difficult to have a bunch of important people in the same place unless it is really, really secure.’ … Trump clearly didn’t believe his own claims concerning presidential security, or he wouldn’t have decided to catch 40 winks in front of thousands of angry basketball fans.” (06/09/26)
- We Should Not “Integrate” Our Military With Any Foreign Nation!
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Paul“Not since the notorious 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) provided for indefinite detention of American citizens, has the annual funding bill been as misused as this year. Embedded in the bill is an insult to every American who values our national sovereignty. The NDAA’s Section 224, the ‘United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,’ would ‘integrate’ the Israeli military with our own, fusing technology, production, intelligence-sharing, and more. … It is hard to think of a more ‘America last’ position than handing the keys to the Pentagon (and our intelligence community) to a foreign country.” (06/09/26)
- Reading: The Quietest Way To Disobey
Source: Reason
by Joel Miller“For those of us who like to think literacy is a form of liberation, there’s a troubling counterpoint: Mein Kampf. Adolf Hitler wasn’t interested in people thinking for themselves; he insisted they think like him. Propaganda, he recognized, is an assault on reflection: avoid abstraction, parrot slogans, abandon objectivity, and scapegoat your enemies. In forms like Mein Kampf, books contributed to the poison. But for the German theologian and anti-Nazi conspirator Dietrich Bonhoeffer, they could also serve as an antidote.” (06/09/26)
https://reason.com/2026/06/09/reading-the-quietest-way-to-disobey/
- The Prussian Assembly Line: Praxeological Sovereignty and the Separation of School and State
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ely Valentino Binet Batista“There are two types of human beings in this world: those who wait for someone to tell them what to do, and those who build structures that force the world to move at their rhythm. Modern state-monopolized education is engineered exclusively for the former. The contemporary school system operates as a direct administrative descendant of the nineteenth-century Prussian factory model.” (06/09/26)
- The Historian Who Explained the True Meaning of the Revolution to Americans
Source: The UnPopulist
by Andy Craig“The famed historian Gordon S. Wood died on Sunday, struck by a car in a parking lot at the age of 92. He was his generation’s foremost scholar of the American Revolution and the early Republic, and for decades he pressed a single argument with alacrity. The argument was this: the American Revolution was the most radical event in American history, and the men who made it neither intended nor controlled the radicalism they unleashed.” (06/09/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-historian-who-explained-the-true
- California proves voters get the government they tolerate
Source: Fox News
by Jonathan Turley“This week, the nation watched as California grappled again with the ordinarily straightforward task of counting votes in an election. While large states such as Florida declare election winners within 24 hours, California may take up to two weeks to count all the votes. Even Los Angeles cannot count its votes in the time of large states despite giving the Clerk an annual budget of $336 million and a $448,179 a year salary with the help of 1,100 budgeted positions. In most states, voters would be outraged by the incompetence, waste and inefficiency. However, in the Golden State, voters shrug, as if they can demand no more from their elected officials than subpar performance. Call it the Politics of Low Expectations, and California is the model for the nation.” (06/09/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-california-proves-voters-get-government-tolerate
- A study isn’t “worthless” because it’s incomplete
Source: Expression
by Samuel J Abrams“The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) recently released a study by David Primo measuring faculty viewpoint diversity through campaign-contribution data. The average faculty donor scored only slightly to the right of progressives like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The findings and criticism traveled quickly. John K. Wilson, writing in Inside Higher Ed, pronounced the study ‘worthless’ because most faculty never make campaign contributions, so a sample of donors cannot describe the average professor. On the narrow point he is right: a sample of donors is not a sample of all faculty. ‘Worthless’ is a serious conclusion — a verdict that, applied consistently, would discard nearly every measure we have.” (06/09/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/a-study-isnt-worthless-because-its
- Promising & Not
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob“‘We are capitalist, not socialist.’ Those words are from the ‘Promise to America’ pledge promoted by a new group of the same name and unveiled last week by Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-New York) and Rep. Adam Gray (D-California). … they declare: ‘We are proud, not ashamed of America.’ The Post suggests, however, that this slogan ‘could be polarizing on the left.’ Sure, it is a much different message than Maine Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner has expressed.” (06/09/26)
- Armenia’s journey to redefine itself
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff“Though smaller than most U.S. states, the landlocked nation of Armenia plays a key geopolitical role at the continental crossroads of Eurasia. With few natural resources, it is aiming to recalibrate regional and global relations and become a hub for international tech, finance, and transport services. So, its parliamentary elections Sunday have been of interest not just to next-door Azerbaijan and Turkey, but also to Iran, Russia, Europe, and the distant United States. The ruling Civil Contract party garnered 49.8% of the vote, Reuters reported, while the two main opposition parties together took in 33.1%. The degree to which both sides can find some common ground will determine how fast and how far this former Soviet republic can move out of history’s long shadow of ethnic conflict and external interference into an era of regional cooperation and progress.” (06/08/26)
- No Second Amendment Protection for Heroin Trafficker
Source: Independent Institute
by Stephen P Halbrook“Fifth Circuit reaffirms Rahimi’s ‘dangerousness’ standard in § 922(a)(1) case.” (06/09/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/06/09/no-second-amendment-protection-for-heroin-trafficker/
- California’s physician shortage demands practical solutions. AB 2386 is one of them.
Source: Niskanen Center
by Lawson Mansell & Jonathan Wolfson“Nearly 15 million Californians live in communities with too few primary care doctors. In many communities, patients face long waits for appointments, struggle to find a physician accepting new patients, or must travel significant distances for routine care. The shortage is especially acute in rural communities, the Inland Empire, and the San Joaquin Valley, where access to healthcare often depends on a patient’s ZIP code rather than their medical needs. The California Senate now has an opportunity to address part of that challenge.” (06/09/26)
- Beyond AP: The College Credit Opportunity Few People Know About
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Kerry McDonald“When Santana Cruz graduates from high school this spring, she will have over 100 college credits and two associate degrees. A public school student in Bristol, Virginia, that sits along the Tennessee border, Cruz began accumulating college credits as a 14-year-old freshman when she took her first College-Level Examination Program or CLEP exam. The program enables students of any age to demonstrate mastery in 34 subject areas, ranging from American government to world languages.” (06/09/26)
https://fee.org/articles/beyond-ap-the-college-credit-opportunity-few-people-know-about/
- The Skid Row vote cries out for investigation
Source: New York Post
by Joel Pollak“Nearly 1,200 people registered to vote at a homeless shelter on Skid Row with 132 beds. 185 people registered at a homeless drop-in center — with no beds at all. That is likely illegal, and it is likely a key to the story of how socialist City Councilmember Nithya Raman overtook Palisades Fire victim Spencer Pratt for second place in the LA mayoral race. Under California law, homeless people can register to vote, even though they do not have a fixed residence. They can use their last fixed address as their voting domicile; they can even specify a geographic location, as long as it is where they live, or where they intend to return. If they do not return there within a year, it is no longer their voting domicile.” (06/09/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/09/opinion/the-skid-row-vote-cries-out-for-investigation/
- The Original Non-Profit Abuse
Source: Coyote Blog
by Warren Meyer“I am not going to get into some of these more recent twists and turns, but I do want to shatter the mythos that the word ‘non-profit’ is somehow equivalent to ‘charitable’ or ‘well-intentioned.’ I know of many non-profits that do good work and for whom we should be grateful, but many many more do very little that is positive and are able to draft off the reputations of the ones who do. I want to describe what I call the original non-profit abuse, one that goes back to the very beginnings of the income tax system. I went to a private school in the 70’s and an Ivy League University in the 80’s and have seen what I am about to describe many times with my own eyes.” (06/09/26)
https://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2026/06/the-original-non-profit-abuse.html
- Reflections on Brain Death, Hope, and the Limits of Certainty
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon“The case of a young child at Texas Children’s Hospital following a near-drowning incident has reignited a debate that medicine has struggled with for more than half a century. According to multiple media reports, the family sought judicial intervention to obtain additional time, explore transfer options, and investigate alternative therapeutic approaches before any final determination regarding brain death would foreclose those possibilities. As so often happens in the modern United States of America, the story quickly moved beyond the walls of the hospital. Lawyers became involved. … this is not an argument against brain death. Nor is it an attempt to overturn decades of neurological science. The neurological criteria for death emerged from legitimate clinical challenges and remain accepted by most physicians, hospitals, and courts. Rather, this is a reflection on what happens when medicine becomes so confident in its conclusions that it stops listening to those most affected by them.” (06/09/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/reflections-on-brain-death-hope-and-the-limits-of-certainty/
- How To Create A Custom News Feed Free From Algorithm Manipulation
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone“Today the Twitter algorithm served me up a bunch of Zionist tweets from accounts I’ve never followed, right at the top of my ‘For You’ feed. Elon and company decided on my behalf that this is the kind of information I need to be consuming, so they’ve taken it upon themselves to shove it down my throat without my permission. As Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation gets more and more aggressive in force-feeding us the official narrative of the day, we have to get a bit clever in making sure we see the information our rulers don’t want us to see. I like to use Twitter Lists for this, because for all its flaws Twitter is still where the journalists hang out and remains a great place for staying on top of the news if you can figure out how to cut through all the bullshit.” (06/09/26)
- Are We Back to 1914?
Source: Law & Liberty
by Ralph L DeFalco III“In our present moment of global upheaval, it’s becoming fashionable to invoke parallels to previous episodes of global crisis. Commentators routinely compare the United States’ political situation to the late Roman Republic just before its slide into Caesarism. Others suggest 1920s Weimar Germany is a more apt comparison with its violent factionalism and loose morals. At the international level, one can find as many comparisons to the Cold War as one can to nineteenth-century Europe. Some, however, are now suggesting that the international situation bears a more striking resemblance to the years preceding the First World War.” (06/09/26)
- Recessions as Murder Mysteries: Are Business Cycles Just a Myth?
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Mueller“In his new book ‘Recession,’ economist Tyler Goodspeed argues that economic downturns are caused by real shocks, not predictable business cycles.” (06/09/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/recessions-as-murder-mysteries-are-business-cycles-just-a-myth/
- Kentucky’s open door on government transparency is closing
Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Caleb O Brown, Amye L Bensenhaver, Kate Miller, & Heather Lemire“Kentucky built its Open Records Act on a simple, powerful premise: that free and open examination of public records is in the public interest. For nearly 50 years, that premise provided a basic guarantee that Kentuckians could see what their government was doing in their name. That premise is now under a growing threat — from the legislature, and increasingly from the courts.” (06/09/26)
- Trump’s Critics Dead Wrong (Again) on the Economy
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore“Last week’s blockbuster jobs report, with more than 265,000 jobs added when including upward employment revisions, was very welcome news to almost all Americans. The exception would be the economists of the Left who throughout Donald Trump’s now-five-and-a-half years in the White House keep getting the economy dead wrong. Just a few months ago a gaggle of economists on the Left, led by Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, started warning of ‘stagflation,’ a witch’s brew of high inflation and high unemployment at the same time. He wrote that ‘any statement that things aren’t as bad as they were in the 1970s should come with the caveat ‘so far.” … These are the same false claims made during Trump’s first term, when some critics warned his policies would cause ‘a second Great Depression.'” (06/09/26)
- Lee Harvey Oswald: Dead Man Walking
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger“Even before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the ‘patsy,’ Lee Harvey Oswald, was a ‘Dead Man Walking.’ There was no way that the orchestrators of the assassination and the cover-up would have ever permitted him to come to trial. Silencing Oswald by killing him immediately after the assassination was always part and parcel of the assassination and its cover-up. How can we be certain of this? By examining the circumstances surrounding the fraudulent autopsy that the U.S. national-security establishment conducted on President Kennedy’s body on the very evening of the assassination.” (06/09/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/06/09/lee-harvey-oswald-dead-man-walking-2/
- Chilling Effects of Trump’s War on Free Speech Extend Far Beyond Campus Walls and That’s the Point
Source: CounterPunch
by Bruce Schneier & Jon Penney“Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent. This silence comes in the wake of a relentless Trump administration war on campus speech that has involved lawsuits, arrests, deportations and expulsions. … It’s increasingly clear to us that these impacts are not incidental or ancillary to Trump administration policy. Rather, the chilling effects are the point. This is the closest thing to a consistent governing strategy in Trump’s second term.” (06/09/26)
- A Strict Construction Handbook
Source: Law & Liberty
by John G Grove“‘Strict construction’ is a taboo phrase, not just for judicial activists looking for unlimited government, but also for most originalists. Perhaps that is because the phrase can mean several different things; or perhaps it is a concession to the reality of the expansive national state in the twentieth century, as if to say Yes, I want to impose some limits, but I’m not one of those crazies. Or, as Antonin Scalia was often known to quip, ‘I am a textualist. I am an originalist. I am not a nut.’ It is therefore a daring endeavor to put forward an entire, clause-by-clause guide to the Constitution explicitly committed to strict construction. That is what William J. Watkins Jr. of the Independent Institute has done with The Independent Guide to the Constitution.” (06/09/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/a-strict-construction-handbook/
- Section 224 and the “Tunisia Test” in Foreign Policy
Source: Libertarian Institute
by RT Hadley“Imagine Congress debating a bill to integrate Tunisia into the National Technology and Industrial Base (NTIB). Shared military supply chains, joint research, and development, linked battlefield data, and a U.S. executive agent coordinating defense-technology cooperation between Washington with Tunis. Presented plainly, the proposal forces the reaction before the argument even begins. The instinctive question: Why Tunisia? Arrives uninvited. Yet that is precisely what Congress has already begun to normalize.” (06/09/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/section-224-and-the-tunisia-test-in-foreign-policy/
- Can Stock Indexes Afford to Ignore SpaceX?
Source: The Daily Economy
by Peter C Earle“Firms that grow large before going public raise questions about whether index membership rules shape market reality rather than merely reflect it.” (06/09/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/can-stock-indexes-afford-to-ignore-spacex/
- Market Failure and the Market Process
Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy“Market failure, which I am defining here as a market not reaching the equilibrium condition where quantity supplied equals quantity demanded, is ubiquitous. Every time we walk into stores, we see market failure happening: shelves and shelves of goods sit, waiting for buyers. This is excess supply (surplus), a market failure. If the market were in equilibrium and perfectly clearing, then when you (the marginal consumer) walk into a store, you should see only the good(s) in the precise quantity you want to buy at the price that precisely equals your willingness to pay for the marginal unit. Nothing else should remain. … Obviously, such an outcome does not exist. Some of the goods we want exist in surplus. Some exist in shortage. And, consequently, the market has failed. But this failure is vital to the workings of the market, broadly called the ‘market process.'” (06/09/26)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/market-failure-and-the-market-process
- Parallax Views w/ JG Michael, 06/09/26
Source: Parallax Views w/ JG Michael
“Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, U.S.-Israel Military Fusion, Unhinged Propaganda, & More w/ Mouin Rabbani.” (06/09/26)
- Fountainhead Forum, episode 459
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Avens O’Brien on the 2026 Libertarian Party (USA) National Convention.” (06/09/26)
- The Kyle Anzalone Show, 06/09/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Is Trump The Best Israeli President Ever?” (06/09/26)
- Capital Record, episode 303
Source: National Review
“Don’t Blame Bernie for AI State Cronyism.” (06/09/26)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/dont-blame-bernie-for-ai-state-cronyism/
- Brian Wilson Speaks, 06/09/26
Source: Brian Wilson Speaks
“Internationally known authority, Don Williams (Smithsonian Institute, ret.), returns to discuss the provocative question: who constitutes the ‘domestic enemies’ mentioned in the Oath all elected officials, military, and civil servants swear to uphold upon taking office.” (06/09/26)
https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/p/all-enemies-foreign-and-domestic
- Cato Podcast, 06/09/26
Source: Cato Institute
“When the President Sues the Government He Controls.” (06/09/26)
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/when-president-sues-government-he-controls
- The Corbett Report, 06/09/26
Source: The Corbett Report
“Do you know the documented history of decades of illegal Israeli government spying on Washington? Do you know who was involved in the nuclear smuggling ring that stole America’s nuclear secrets to build Israel’s illegal and still undeclared nuclear arsenal? Do you know about Unit 8200 and the inescapable web of cyber spying operations that leads from Tel Aviv to Washington right through Epstein Island? Well, you’re about to! Strap in and get ready.” (06/09/26)
- The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/09/26
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“I’m joined by Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos today. We talk about the word ‘democracy’ and how it has become a magical incantation to lead gullible voters into captivity.” (06/09/26)
- Ron Paul Liberty Report, 06/09/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Will Lindsey Graham Finally Go Down?” (06/09/26)
- The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 06/09/26
Source: The New Republic
“Angry Trump Storms Out of On-Air Interview for Unnervingly Dark Reason.” (06/09/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/211525/angry-trump-storms-on-air-interview-unnervingly-dark-reason
- Advisory Opinions, 06/09/26
Source: The Dispatch
“Counting Down the Supreme Court Term.” (06/09/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/counting-down-the-supreme-court-term/
- The Good Fight, 06/09/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Rebecca Haw Allensworth on How Professional Licenses are Rigging the Game for Insiders.” (06/09/26)
- Kevin Warsh and the Future of the Fed
Source: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus
“Tom Hoenig and I [David Beckworth] reflect on Kevin Warsh, Fed independence, and lessons from the Bernanke transition to Fed Chair.” (06/09/26)
https://macroeconomicpolicynexus.substack.com/p/kevin-warsh-and-the-future-of-the
- Show-Me Institute Podcast, 06/09/26
Source: Show-Me Institute
“Is America Family Unfriendly? with Tim Carney.” (06/09/26)
- Out of the Jaws, episode 4
Source: Liberal Currents
“The Soy Pill (Niels Griedel) joins Ryan and Adam to discuss his political awakening, navigating the new media, whether Adam is legacy media or merely old new media, the value of philosophy or lack thereof, the existential problem of climate change and the politics it implies, and much more.” (06/08/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/pragmatism-not-philosophy-out-of-the-jaws-4-with-the-soy-pill/